My research activities have been fully dedicated to the field of exoplanet searches and characterization over the last 10 years. I am activily working on three topics simultaneously :

- Hunting for low mass planets via microlensing

- An exoplanet census via microlensing with EUCLID

- Characterisation of extrasolar planets with ECHO

EUCLID is an accepted ESA mission (wide field imager in space) due to be launched on 2020. ECHO (a 1.3m space telescope concept to do spectroscopy of extrasolar planets in the range 0.5-16 microns). It will be re-submitted to ESA this fall.

Our primary objective is the discovery of low mass
planets (1 – 15 Earth masses) within 1 – 5 AU of the most common stars
in our Galaxy by microlensing effects in order to measure
their frequency.
As a secondary objective we will do detailed studies of known
planetary systems (including probing their atmospheres during planetary
transits) and estimate their physical properties.